The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-08-16
THE LONE STAR STATE.
What Major Edwards Has tn Say
About Prohibition i'm Texas.


the other day it predicted, only 10 be
laughed at and somewhat abused, Tex
as has thrust her sword up to the very
hilt through prohibition. 1t was a
straight stroke and & clean one. 1t
was such a stroke as the accomplished
Matadore gives when the fierce Cordo-
van bull, goaded to madness by the
keen lance thrust of picadOres and the
jagged iron torments ofthe banderillos
lowers his head and rushes blindly
upon the single straight blade, 1.-THE
like blacksnake and swift like car
rier pigeon, that sewers the spinal
chord or transfxes the heart.
After Waterloo, and after Napoleon
had been doomed to living death at
St. Helena, a cuirassier of the Old
Guard suddenly turned up in Paris.
He sought quarrels everywhere, but
always among the foreign officers.
Especially were his most grevious
insults directed against Englishmen.
So deadly was his proves, so terrible
did his name become, and so incurable
were the wounds he inflicted, that the
king himself took hand and sent to
order the cuirassier before him for an
examination. Forewarned, he fed to
Turkey, and died a colonel in the
service of the sultan. A surgeon
afterwards explained the secret of his
deadly combats. AS soon as he de-
livered a home thrust he would sud-
denly turn his rapier its entire circum-
ference in the aperture, thus larcer-
ating and tearing, instead of merely
penetrating, and thus creating a
wound, where it did not instantly kill,
which was never known to heal.
Not only once but several times
have the glorious Democrats in Texas
turned their steel in the terrible wound
inflicted upon prohibitation. No need
of any doctor there. No need of any
unguents and ointments. No need
of any prayer or paint of priest, or
bones of saint, or crucifx, or candles,
or holy water. The cuirassier's hand
writing has been writ legibly upon
that puritanical carcass, and if it es-
capes the lock jaw it is absolutely sure
to die of blood poisoning.
This Texas election was the turning
point in the tide of great inundation |
of prescription and fanaticism which |
seemed to be swiftly sweeping over
the Spawned in Maine, and Matched
out in Iowa and Kansas, if it success
fully invaded Texas the solid south |
was broken, and what true Democrats |
did not go to Blaine In 1888 would |
undoubtedly 60 to the devil. Dem
ocracy and prohibition can not live in
the same state togather. Like Sew
ards position on the slavery question,
there is an irrepressible conflict be-
tween them. IfTexas faltered which
had led the vanguard and carried the |
banner of a spotless Democracy for
twenty-five years what would become
of time-serving Missouri, and God-and-
morality Georgia and revolutionary
Tennessee This day in each of these
states the buttermilk jubileers are
sounding their hew-gags and beating
their tom-toms. If it is not one thing
it is another. 1t appears impossible
as race to keep the Americans from
meddling with each others landmarks.
If they cannot be in perpetual strife.
If they can not array neighbo, hood
against neighborhood and county
against county. If they can not drag
into placid and peaceful politics more
bombshells filled with dynamite and
with shorter fuse than any nihilist
scared by the knOut. If they can not
pull down more things that are veneer
able with age and approved of because
tried and found good for man-if they
cannot do all these things, We say,
and more equally as cowardly and as
scoundrelly-they will take the dry.
rot and perish of it in droves as they
perish of dry leprosy at Acapulco.
Just look at the situation: The
democratic party will have to fight for
the very life of its organization in 1888.
1t has on its hack this very hour a
load that would crush to the earth any
giant less seasoned, less resolute and
less powerful. Not content with see. |.
ing it staggering up grandly to the
battle, every sense alert and every
muscle standing cut like rods of iron,
but the accursed burden of prohibition
must be added, and added at that by
the hands of Democrats, and Dem
Ocrats who are what they are through
Democratic cohesion, unity of action,
fair play, liberty, a perfect idea of
Justice and goodly share of common
sense. Where would Senator Reagan
have been, renegade and pitiable
1emagogue as he has proven himself
10 be, If the Democrats In Texas who